Votive Antiphon for the Dedication of a Church
Now let the Church’s mother womb
rejoice!
For in the heavens’
symphony her children
are gathered to her bosom.
O vile snake,
you are confounded,
for those your hollow reckoning had thought
it clutched within its guts
now sparkle in the blood of God’s Son—
praise be to you, the King most high!
Alleluia!